· Private foundation
Sampson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| CITY OF BUFFALO LAKE | $37,092 |
| HECTOR HISTORICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| THE BLHS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ZION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| THOMAS A COSTELLO LEGACY FD | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| ALLISON DORNSEIF CENTRAL LAKES COLL | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PDPERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +16%
- RCRENVILLE COUNTY FOOD SHELF3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +13%
- SASHARING AND CARING HANDS INC2× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- LBLOBULAR BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +130%
- POPRINCE OF PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $10k
- RURASMUSSEN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Tc food justice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in minneapolis, mn. since march 2016 we have been working with co-ops, grocery stores, and farmers markets to redistribute their unsellable foods to local hunger relief…
Community emergency service (ces) is one of the largest food distribution nonprofits serving one of the poorest communities in the twin cities. our mission is to turn hunger into hope through three principal programs: (i) food market, (ii)…
The mission of a touch of the fathers love food pantry and ministry is to: ~alleviate food insecurity in the twin counties area through the distribution of healthy and nutritious food while instilling hope. ~treat all staff, partner…
Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.
We provide christ-centered, life-changing pathways for all people who are experiencing homelessness, hunger and addiction.
The mission of goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill") is: connecting people to work. preparing people for life. goodwill is dedicated to creating collective community impact through (continued on schedule o)
To honor the dignity, restore hope and create lasting change for homeless and those at risk in the green bay area.
Services for residents in area.
By providing food and medicine, we nourish our clients and build community
Awakening to god ministries (atg) provides love, comfort and hope to people who are suffering in the u.s. and around the world by providing spiritual, physical, mental and emotional solutions. in fiscal year 2024, atg partnered with prayer…
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 146 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LOBULAR BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS A COSTELLO LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RENVILLE COUNTY FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds REVERENCE FOR LIFE AND CONCERN FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sampson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sampson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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